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Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article

Few studies have focused on value structures, experiences, and cultural diversity as it relates to bioswale planning and implementation. We used ‘Point of Opportunity Interactions’ to understand previously undocumented views of the Cantonese-speaking... Read More about Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure.

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: There is increasing acceptance of the desirability of involving communities in stewardship activities around urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to generate acceptance, reduce vandalism and decrease the maintenance burden on authoriti... Read More about Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities.

‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

SmartBioC focuses on creating a user-friendly digital tool that allows users to select and specify biobased materials and building components for a modular housing unit based on a set of performance indicators including carbon footprint, thermal perf... Read More about ‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC).

Understanding influence and action in Learning and Action Alliances: Experience from the Newcastle Blue-Green vision (2022)
Journal Article

The Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) framework is increasingly valued as an approach to facilitate social learning and action by enabling collaboration within and between organisations, breaking down barriers to information sharing and facilitating... Read More about Understanding influence and action in Learning and Action Alliances: Experience from the Newcastle Blue-Green vision.

‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC) (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

SmartBioC focuses on creating a user-friendly digital tool that allows users to select and specify biobased materials and building components for a modular housing unit based on a set of performance indicators including carbon footprint, thermal perf... Read More about ‘Smartifying’ construction for circular and zero-carbon biobased buildings (SmartBioC).

Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Effective flood mitigation strategies at individual property level can be designed to limit damage and facilitate recovery by limiting water entry or enabling entry into occupied spaces in a controlled manner. Ideally these strategies will be robust... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs.

Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa (2022)
Journal Article

The collection and use of data on climate change and its impacts are crucial for effective climate adaptation and climate risk management. The revolution in internet access, technology and costs has led to a shift from using traditional paper-based d... Read More about Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa.

Blue-green cities: Achieving urban flood resilience, water security, and biodiversity (2021)
Book Chapter

A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations (2021)
Journal Article

The causes of construction waste (CW) in Nigeria have been a major topic for researchers over the last 15 years. However, no effort had been made to analyse these studies to understand the trends. A structured review of 30 research studies investigat... Read More about A review of the causes of construction waste generation in Nigeria and recommendations.

Resilience through flood memory-A comparison of the role of insurance and experience in flood resilience for households and businesses in England (2021)
Book Chapter

Resilience to flooding is influenced by adaptations or behavior that address risk reduction at all stages of the disaster cycle. This includes: physical adaptation of buildings to limit damage; individual preparedness and business continuity planning... Read More about Resilience through flood memory-A comparison of the role of insurance and experience in flood resilience for households and businesses in England.

Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Greening small urban street spaces such as alleys and laneways is increasingly popular with city authorities. Motivation for starting these projects varies and this may hold implications in terms of the responsible function and department overseeing... Read More about Using an ecosystem services lens to explore a broader funding base for laneways.

Carbon reduction scenarios in the built historic environment (2020)
Report

To limit global warming a reduction in energy consumption and carbon emissions from the built environment is crucial. Despite pre-1919 buildings accounting for a large proportion of the existing building stock, the role of these buildings in contribu... Read More about Carbon reduction scenarios in the built historic environment.

Understanding citizen and community behaviours and preferences (2020)
Book Chapter

Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management (2020)
Journal Article

Learning and Action Alliances (LAAs) are becoming an increasingly popular method for overcoming the challenges associated with participatory forms of governance, where decision making requires collaboration between stakeholders. In flood risk managem... Read More about Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management.

Developing the implicit association test to uncover hidden preferences for sustainable drainage systems (2020)
Journal Article

Understanding public perceptions of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) is critical for addressing barriers to their implementation. Perceptions are typically evaluated using explicit measures (e.g. questionnaires) that are subject to biases and may... Read More about Developing the implicit association test to uncover hidden preferences for sustainable drainage systems.

Stakeholder engagement - developing a blue-green vision (2019)
Book Chapter

Evaluating flood adaptation governance in the city of Calabar, Nigeria (2019)
Journal Article

The increasing demand for cities in developing societies to embed climate adaptation into policies and practices has implications for the governance system which mainly focus on governing by traditional hierarchical forms, and by network while neglec... Read More about Evaluating flood adaptation governance in the city of Calabar, Nigeria.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report (2019)
Report

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations (December 2019) Summary Report.

Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019 (2019)
Report

Retail real estate has traditionally been seen as an attractive investment class. Historically it has provided superior returns, long-term stability and income growth. It has preserved residual value, allowed for diversification and enhanced the scop... Read More about Chopping shopping? Implications of retail structural change on sector allocations: Full report - December 2019.